"is that I want you to help me find out about those queer noises, and
what makes them. If there's a----"

But just then Grandpa Ford saw Rose and Russ looking at him in a queer
and interested way and as if they wanted to hear what was being said, so
he stopped with:

"Well, you know what I mean."

"Yes," said Daddy Bunker. "We know."

"I know what they were talking about," said Russ in a whisper to Rose, a
little later.

"What?"

"About the ghost. Grandpa has a ghost at Great Hedge, and he wants to
find it. We'll find it for him, Rose."

"Yes, but we mustn't tell any one else about it," and Rose nodded
toward Mun Bun and the others.

"No, we won't tell them," agreed Russ. "We'll hunt all by ourselves, and
s'prise Grandpa and Grandma."

The passengers were now settled in their seats again, and pretty soon
the train started off once more. It did not go as fast as at first,
because there was so much snow on the tracks. But there were no more
sudden stops, and soon a brakeman came through the coach and said he
thought everything would be all right.